skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not agree this constitutes genocide. Israel withdrew from Gaza not too long ago. If the attacks hadn't happened, there would be a "ceasefire" today. It is completely contrary to what Israel tries to do, the accusation is ridiculous and lacking any form of sincere analysis and judgement.
Correct, and same with e-scooters over where I live, which is how I know that most cyclists ride at about 20 km/h or less - by reading the speedometer while matching speed with a cyclist in front of me.
Also TOR being overtly created and sponsored by the US government, leading to some distrust
> Your choice of language in your comments (in this thread, not in general) isn’t bolstering your argument.

Yeah, you're probably not wrong. I've had this argument a few times now, and it's the same dismissive "we don't know what we don't know" every time. Well, you can say that for everything and given the complexities of the xz attack that seems a bit unlikely to me, which is then again countered with "but we don't know!!11"

"Every contributor is dangerous" is spectacularly toxic type of attitude. I've already seen random people be made a target and even had their employers contacted over this before they even had a chance to explain(!!) To say nothing of "there are many ways to compromise existing maintainers. Compromising people is the core competency of intelligence, happens all the time" – so great, now I'm also potentially dangerous after spending untold hours and money over the last 20 years because I could be compromised. Great.

This was never a nuanced conversation about risk management to start with. This is not the type of community I've worked for all this time. "Let's use some common-sense tech so this isn't that easy". Sure, let's talk about that. "Let's treat every volunteer involved as potentially hostile and compromised after we've seen a single incident"? Yeah, nah.
you mean, they restrict your searches to messages newer than 14 days.

huge difference.
There is no going back to the 50s or 60s, American demography has changed profoundly since then and culture, too.

There is, though, some space to swing the pendulum too far in the other direction, where white male is the universally undesirable employee/student, and East Asian male meets the same fate because he is "white-adjacent".
I've been using this for years to route audio between DAW's. Once it's set up, it runs flawlessly.
And then you have to wait a month and more and they log time on your project budget. Legal department takes that kind of stuff seriously and don't give off the cuff opinions. So now your project is severely delayed you are under budget and the only thing you got from it is that you maybe gets permission to use a new library.

Ooooor... you can just pick one of hundreds of options with a more commonly used licenses that have already been approved by them many years ago.
Yeah, in Linux with Pulse https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/443064

There might be other ways to do it depending on your distribution, for example https://askubuntu.com/q/78174
Early this year, I've received a hostile PR for a "maintenance only" JavaScript authentication library with less than 100 stars but which is actively used by my employer.

It added a "kinda useful but not really needed" feature and removed an unrelated line of code, thereby introducing a minor security vulnerability.

My suspicion is that these low quality PRs are similar to the intentional typos in spam emails: Identify projects/ maintainers who are sloppy/ gullible enough and start getting a foot in the door.
My rule of thumb: If an interface only have a single implementation, it is likely superflous.
Google Is Staring Down Its First Serious Threats in Years
What immediately makes it worth it is when the cloud provider you are (supposedly) already invested in provides the CPU cluster without extra set up cost.

Examples Google BigQuery, AWS Athena or AWS serverless EMR.

These cloud providers always have a bunch of CPUs idle, so they even provide the CPU cost for free, it is just the loading of data that costs.
Personal experience: when I was a kid, I instinctively knew when a book tried to "teach" me something or instill some world view and I immediately know the intention and found that boring. The really exciting books were those that either didn't try to teach anything or those that didn't make it so obvious. Might it be that the contemporary literature for children is constantly trying to push an educational agenda and kids instinctively despise that (as I did)?
Source that denominator or just accept that you are bigoted.
because they not my enemy. they dont threaten me. imho NATO threatens them by trying to extend into ukraine/georgia and making color revolutions on their borders.
You don't need to guess correctly, a large company with enough capital can just buy a huge amount of new developments.
Funnily enough, I also found the article absurd and amusing, but from the opposite side. Without your comment, and others like it, I would have compared this article to one stating "don't raise your kids on fast food" or "teach children to swim if you want less deaths by drowning".

In my neighborhood, nobody that I know uses active pest control for insects in their gardens. That is reserved for indoor plants.
Snails are killed by most in some way or another, but even my parents - who are in their sixties - think that actively managing insect populations in the garden instead of just letting it reach an equilibrium died out in their generation.

"insects will rock your world and kill everything, over and over, until you get them smacked down."

Are there more problematic insects in the US compared to Europe? I can't comprehend that mindset, but maybe it's down to differences in flora and fauna between our respective gardens.
"I'll begin by clearing a big misunderstanding people have regarding how Large Language Models work. The assumption that most people make is that these models can answer questions or chat with you, but in reality all they can do is take some text you provide as input and guess what the next word (or more accurately, the next token) is going to be."

What separates this from the following:

"I'll begin by clearing a big misunderstanding people have regarding how the human brain works. The assumption that most people make is that the brain can think, reason, and understand language, but in reality all it can do is process electrical and chemical signals."
No, they are not solutions to complex problems. The problem "how to deploy an application for <10 concurrent users" is not a complex problem.
I hope not.

The core wayland protocol have so many missing piece and many extension are not standardized nor well defined. This is basically killing the interoperability between UI toolkit for non-trivial cases.
Indeed, in python you can just eval.
You do it implicitly.

Say you decide to grab a coffee from a coffee shop. You need to cross a busy street for that. If the coffee costs $5, and the chance of you getting killed by crossing the street is 1 in 100 000, then by getting that coffee you demonstrate you value your life at less than $500 000 --- value of life * probability of death < cost of coffee.
I guess that means we need more government funded Moonshots.
> I never found them but everyone got to pretend like they were making a difference for a little bit.

Keyword: virtue signalling

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

(in Germany, it is common to use a much more derogatory term for a related concept: "[der] Tugendterror" [virtue terror]).
I can't argue with that, so I think unfortunately I may have missed the original point.

The sun revolved around the earth for a long time until our own model was updated to include more data.
Right so; the way it was written implied that at least they had spent significant amount of time on it, at least to me (I tried a quick grep in "git log" to see if I could find them, but couldn't find anyone matching the username here).
> all Smart Meters that the net maintainers installed (are required to) support the P1 standard

Does that support monitoring each power circuit separately?
I know of some pumped hydro sites that have been given up due to opex, with no clear change of mind due to changing circumstances in the decarbonisation age yet in sight. What they do have in common, I think, is low head. There's just a lot of water to carry traces of sediment into the mechanism, and so much reservoir ground to keep from leaking for a given amount of capacity.

But you don't arrive at isobaric storage looking at mineshaft pumped hydro wondering if it could be improved upon. You start looking at constant volume (A-)CAES, either in high pressure tanks at/near the surface or in salt caverns, and go from there, what of we did not have to deal with a very wide range of operation pressure.
That's in contrast to what OpenAI's David Luan "Why Google couldn’t make GPT-3" (https://www.latent.space/p/adept):

And it turned out the whole time that they just couldn't get critical mass.
So during my year where I led the Google LM effort and I was one of the
brain leads, you know, it became really clear why. At the time, there was a
thing called the Brain Credit Marketplace. Everyone's assigned a credit. So
if you have a credit, you get to buy end chips according to supply and
demand. So if you want to go do a giant job, you had to convince like 19 or
20 of your colleagues not to do work. And if that's how it works, it's
really hard to get that bottom up critical mass to go scale these things.
And the team at Google were fighting valiantly, but we were able to beat
them simply because we took big swings and we focused.”

The whole episode is very interesting.
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The thing about looking under the hood into the complexity of the tool you're using is that is can make you consider my initial question in this thread: Do I REALLY need all of this for my use case?

I think if more people would do this exercise they would find that they don't need it, or at least that they might need some form of state reconciliation, but not enough to really warrant all the complexity the tool introduces. Some will find that they don't need it but will still use it for other reasons, like familiarity or because that's what their team uses.
If I don't have a collection of stamps, I don't go hungry or unhoused. If I don't have a collection of money, I run into significant problems.
While I love open source, this feels to me like something companies need to pay for.

It might be that no open source contributions I've made are things people care about, but I'm not spending one second of my time for free updating databases so multi-billion dollar companies can feel safer.
> we’re talking a mere 19 to 30 nanoseconds to get the time elapsed since a reference date and compare it to a threshold.

The table shows 19 or 30 milliseconds for Date / NSDate. Or am I misunderstanding something?
My dad sold software for electron crystallography. You could buy the software and 4 electron microscopes and fund a team of doctoral students for the same price as one big fancy electron microscope that did the same thing in hardware. He could not compete.
I recently built a TUI for exploring and developing CUE, JSON, Yaml.

Large inspiration for the overall UX comes from the Bloomberg terminal, where every function is reachable with four letter shortcut from the command box. It was really the command box that I liked. I've also built a sort of "flex" panel component for the layout so you can create as many panels as you like.

https://docs.hofstadter.io/getting-started/hof-tui/

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_dev/lib/tui

This was built on the tview/tcell stack in Go. There is also the Charm.sh stack that takes a different approach but is generally prettier and more polished (having a company behind it)
This video [0] was from 2010s, and seems like they had similar issues even back then. (never worked at Google)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
Even save the star system seems to be too small now. There's now save the universe plots or even save the multiverse plots.
The role of smartphones in modern war [video]
Yes, it's the spice mix used in pumpkin pie and some other pumpkin dishes.
who did? ;-)

i wasn't complaining about that, but about the downvotes of the comment
You can easily get two decades out of solutions like libjpeg, the GNU project, systemd, busybox, rsync, etc.
I'm sorry but this is a huge copout. At least the big companies and governments have the money to solve all these problems. They have literally teams of lawyers on retainer and they can hire a few more people for all the other self created bureaucracy. None of the things mentioned here are laws, of nature or otherwise.
Or even better: push a cryptographic protocol with a builtin weakness as a standard and deprecate others as "insecure."

Any implementation would be vulnerable.
I am not sure how many people were surveyed and what were the questions in these. I am reminded of this from Yes, Prime Minister https://youtu.be/ahgjEjJkZks?si=_6nlxJ1okysqH07U
Good products have unintended consequences
"showing the median runtime of the benchmark, which is a million iterations of checking the time"
I think main tension here is that you think people confuse an LLM with a person having real world like experiences? I get that, and it's an interesting phenomenon, it's just a helpful way to talk to these models.

When I type in a query to ChatGPT, I know there's no real "you" in it, but it's just helpful for me to narrow down that Pllm probability space to give me a good enough answer I'm looking for. It's a helpful shortcut if I treat it like a person, but I should know it's a really good prediction machine which has access to most of the combined human knowledge in a latent space.

I rarely go "wild", people rarely go "wild" with their train of thoughts and actions. Everybody is moving on a more or less predefined set of rails. How long that rail is and where it goes depends on the person and situation.

Pyou is also limited in the sense that most of my outputs are history based, but all the sensory inputs I have gained over the years are now compressed into various neural circuits. I can act in surprising ways, but I'm more than a language model, although language is a huge part of me.

I'm more like a Pyou(xyz, t, Pllm, I) where "I" is the magic soup of human experience encoded in some gray matter.

You are right that most LLM-s are static, but we shouldn't ignore that complex systems (agents) can be built with LLM-s in which the language model is only an I/O layer to static knowledge. There could be other moving, dynamic parts which can be continuously updated and these parts can modify the behaviour of the system.
True - load and store mask off the bottom 4 bits of the address. They try to help the situation by including an instruction which can shift a pair of 128-bit registers by bytes.
The Picard Principle: It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose
Humans have painted with wonky perspective and impossible shadows because they didn't know better for literally 50.000 years. And those humans were just as smart as we are. Just look at 13th century paintings. Does this prove that humans back then didn't understand what a coffee cup looks like when rotated? No. So what does this prove about midjourney? Nothing.
All technology can be used for good and evil

If humanity can figure out how to make machines think, may we should also figure out how to stop doing evil to each other
This sounds like a very bad idea to me. If a request for a hug must be granted, how does one express the real emotional cluster of "I want to hug you"?

Do you think the people you most admire in your own life and in the broader world, both current and historical, have emotional artificiality deeply engrained in them? For me, that is very much not the case.
Graphviz 11.0
Sony overturns Helldivers 2 PSN requirement following backlash
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I’ve loved keeping plants since I was a kid. But the online world of plants can be confusing - strange vocabulary, plants going by conflicting names, and hundreds of niche websites. I wanted to create a site that would organize all of this info and make it easier to explore and discover new plants. That’s why I created GetAnyPlant, which aggregates and matches plants from dozens of online stores. It includes huge amounts of data on these plants along with filters and categories to help you search. You can also save plants to your wishlist and add notes to them.

I’m a data scientist by profession, so probably 80% of the work was totally new to me. I built v1 using wordpress , v2 using django, and v3 I pivoted to using react and next js for frontend.

I would greatly appreciate any feedback on the site as well as any advice on how to grow it.
yeah, that's why from time to time i like to resist back a little. there is room for the occasional witty response to lighten up the mood
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No, we shouldn't. But the cost of installing bollards and the "harm to society" are two distinct costs. There are about 2.37 pedestrian deaths per billion vehicle miles traveled in America. Even if we assign a generous cost of 5M$ per life lost, that only amounts to a 0.01$ per mile driven, which is probably not enough to cover the cost of installing bollards all over the place.
Washed Out's new music video was created with AI. [Sora]
Nothing preventing you from writing a X11 server in something else either (and people have done so!). But fact is, most wayland compositors right now are either pure C or C++ (and I think the rest uses at least wlroots?).
Many X11 window managers are written in non-c languages too and I don't think I am too far off the mark when I say that a decent fraction of wayland compositors would just be external window managers if there existed a standardized interface for window managers when they were written (I think some compositors have an interface for external window managers now, but is there a standard interface by now?).
Eh, wlroots is in C. Tons of the Wayland stuff is in C. There's a bunch of good reasons to prefer Wayland, but this is probably the worst reason I've seen yet.
Glad you come to that conclusion.

> And in the case of RT, they had left even the pretence of journalism a long time ago.

What is RT doing that is not found in FOX, NBC, CNews.fr, Hayom?

> liberal world order based on law, not might.

This is a facade. The talking point the NATO/US/west uses, while they violate every such rule when they see fit. You may be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer
They don't really release water into the cavern, they release air out (through the turbine stages). The water is never really held back. It's a floating counterbalance for keeping the air pressure constant (or mostly constant, considering surface reservoir level differences which would never exceed a tiny fraction of the total water head, unless the facility runs into extreme water shortage)
"Good" that Microsoft now owns GitHub. They could now provide their AI tech to find out (and sell) which social engineering methods have worked out successfully on open source GitHub projects. I.e. which socially engineered PRs had been accepted and which not. And then train their models to improve PR acceptance right. Allowing to automate or at least enhance the entire project communication for best acceptance rate. #NSAKEY
> A statistical model of orbits, without a theory of gravity

You want a statistical model that produces a theory of gravity.
Divide by a million
Good enough for Gnome.
Germany and allies accuse Russia of sweeping cyberattacks
Pumped hydro won't work unless you have a suitable mountain to hand. Compressed air can be built in flat country.
All according to *keikaku*

(TN: keikaku means plan)

This meme comes from the overuse of TNs in anime fansubs to explain obvious things, things that did not need explaining, or where there would be a perfectly straightforward English word that would do the job.

Neologisms: do you mean neologism in the source language or the target language? This usually happens in the other direction, where the English words for things get copied straight over to other languages to refer to new items. There must be examples in the other direction but I can't immediately think of one.
As a SQL Server DBA I couldn't possibly understand what you mean.

(For simple cases it "just works" just don't look under the hood or try to do anything non-trivial and it'll be fine.)
I guess if it is demonetized it should be ok? Or maybe not if your other content or activity is commercial, as even if the video in itself doesn't make money it would indirectly promote your other commercial activity.

Interesting legal problem.
Well ChatGPT is a mixture of LLMs, and no doubt a great deal more to make this work out (i'd suppose, eg., that they augment their datasets to have conversational framing, with actions/verbs etc. augumented -- or they acheive similar with models-on-top).

Nevertheless, roughly consider a dataset D for which we have an approximate stochastic model of its conditional frequency associations: P(next|previous..., D) etc.

Then if your prompt really got that reply, from this model, it would do so like this:

"Construct" is first projected to an encoding which replaces it, effectively, with a set of related words (Construct, Make, Create, Write...) all weighted by how they co-occur with construct.

Then we sample from D based on this word set, obtaining roughly, all conversations where these related words were used, call this Dc.

Next take "a sentence" and replace it with its word-set, say, (Sentence, Phrase, Words, ...) and sample conversations from Dc in which these occur, Dcs..

And so on. Since each token in your prompt actually corresponds to basically all possible words but weighted by association, each "filtering operation" actually selects vast amounts of the training data (space).

Finally, consider the reverse problem: what words could this system possibly produce from this process that weren't relevant to your prompt? Given enough data (PBs of text from all possible digitized conversations, books, etc.) then a sensible-seeming answer becomes the only plausible one to generate.

Now, I do think here PBs wouldnt be enough to generate a single statistical model that behaved this way -- so you need a mixture of them (ie., ChatGPT) and I suspect you also need a system for regulating discrete constraints such as quantities. I suspect many deployed LLMs have improved in this area due to models trained to be specifically sensitive to quantities.